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Lifeline Pregnancy Counselling and Care
24A Haddington Place
Leith Walk
Edinburgh
EH7 4AF
Tel: 0131 557 2060
Web: www.lifelinepregnancycounselling.com
Best time to telephone: 9.30am - 3.30pm, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday; 12.00am - 6.00pm Thursday
Lifeline is a charity which runs a drop-in centre at the above address. Lifeline offers the following services:
- Anyone facing a problem or unplanned pregnancy can get a free pregnancy test and free counselling.
- Professionally trained counsellors can help a pregnant woman to consider carefully her own and her baby's future and discuss all her options before reaching her decision.
- Advice can be given on sources of help available to pregnant women: supplementary benefits, maternity grants, accommodation, adoption agencies, marriage guidance, etc.
- Counselling is also offered to anyone suffering the trauma of miscarriage, still-birth or abortion.
- Material aid - ie baby clothes and equipment - is provided to those in need; much of the equipment is second-hand; there are no resources for financial help.
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